This sometimes can happen :( However, to avoid hungs - boot with -c option and in visual configure mode disable all devices which you doesn't have.
Maxim Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I took a 3.0 kernel #3 floppy and tried to install 3.0 on two systems > and both failed: > > 1. System: > > ???? PCB Motherboard , Amd 386/40, Cyrix FasMath (w/ or w/o) > ???? 8 MB, IDE IBM DHEA 38451 (16384/16/63) > > ???? The most I could achieve was booting up into blue install screen > ???? mode but got hung during probing devices (only NE2000, VGA and IDE > ???? controller present, nothing fancy). > > 2. System > > ???? ASUS P55T2P4, same HD, but also SCSI disks and a Syquest removable > ???? medium. P5/200, 128 MB, xl0 network device. > > ???? Symptoms: > > ???? at boot: prompt there is a long beep (for a second or so) > > ???? finds xl0, SCSI disks but wdc0 and wdc1 are not found !. > ???? (although the HD is there in the BIOS) > > ???? Comes up into install mode, but when choosing custom->partition > ???? there are No disks found. > ? > > -- > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies k...@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
